▲An Iranian nuclear facility was attacked by a worm called Stuxnet. The attack destroyed 1000 nuclear centrifuges.

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According to McAfee’s Economic Impact of Cyber Crime report, 780,000 records were lost per day in 2017.

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Hackers use a variety of methods to conduct cyber attacks. They can operate alone or in groups, launching coordinated attacks.

▲There are mainly two types of cyber attacks. Those intended to disable the computer or network, and those made with the intention of gaining access to data.

▲They are attacks made from one or more computers, toward another computer, group of computers, or network.

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The Chinese government was suspected of being behind the attack. In 2010, Google relocated its servers to Hong Kong.

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According to CSO, 92% of malware (viruses, trojans, worms) is delivered by e-mail.

▲The estimated damage was US$10 to US$100 million.

▲In 2000, a Canadian 15-year-old high school student known as 'MafiaBoy' launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on number of websites.

▲Three teenagers from California attacked around 500 government and private computers that were running the Sun Solaris operating system.

▲The attacked websites included Amazon, CNN, eBay, and Yahoo!. The attacks resulted in an estimated damage of $US1.7 billion.

▲The US government first suspected that Iraqi operatives were behind the cyber attack.

▲This was one of the the most complex cyber attacks in history, and could have had disastrous consequences if it had lasted for more than one hour.

▲The virus has reportedly caused about US$1.1 billion in damages worldwide.

▲In 2009, Albert Gonzalez managed to steal millions of credit card numbers from over 250 financial institutions in the US.

▲This was just one of many attacks by the group known as 'Anonymous.'

▲In 2009, hackers targeted Google servers allegedly to access Chinese human rights activists' emails.

▲This allowed him to steal NASA software worth US$1.7 million. The systems were impacted for three weeks, costing NASA US$41,000. Jonathan James committed suicide in 2008.

▲As a result, several individual users boycotted Paypal and hackers launched an attack on the company. The estimated damage was approximately US$4.5 million.

▲Gonzalez then reportedly spent US$75,000 on a birthday party. This is still the biggest card fraud in history.

▲In 2010, Paypal restricted the account used by WikiLeaks to raise funds.

▲An attack on all root servers in the US almost stopped the internet.

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Iran blamed the United States and Israel for the attacks.

▲The Melissa virus infected Microsoft Word documents and spread via email.

▲Kevin Poulsen hacked into Los Angeles' telephone services so that he could win a car on a radio competition.

▲Another 15-year-old boy named Jonathan James was able to hack into the US Department of Defense, gaining access to a large amount of confidential data.

▲In 2008, a group of young hackers launched a cyber attack on the Church of Scientology website, reportedly because they were against the religion.

▲In 1988, an American student created a worm that morphed into a virus, infecting about 6000 computers.

▲He successfully blocked any other callers and eventually won the car. He was later sentenced to five years in prison.

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Cybercrime is big business, and while governments and the private sector do everything they can to prevent hacker attacks, history tells us this is not always an easy task.

Browse through the gallery and learn more about the most notorious cyber attacks in history.

The biggest cyber attacks in history

Hackers amass millions every year

31/10/24 por StarsInsider

LIFESTYLE Cyber security

Cybercrime is big business, and while governments and the private sector do everything they can to prevent hacker attacks, history tells us this is not always an easy task.

Browse through the gallery and learn more about the most notorious cyber attacks in history.